2026 Alabama Primary Runoff

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Dakarai Larriett has a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Alabama and a master's degree from New York University School of Business. 

Dakarai is an author. He wrote a book on criminal justice reform. He previously spent 20 years working in public service, advocating for policies to improve life for Americans and Alabamians.

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Dakarai is the business owner of a pet care business. He previously worked as a forecasting manager, as a corporate leader, at the Bronx Community Pride Center, and at Whirlpool.

Dakarai Larriett's campaign for U.S. Senator in Alabama is his first entry into politics.

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Dakarai's campaign for U.S. Senator in Alabama is his first entry into politics.

Supports raising the federal minimum wage and implementing an "inflation-adjusted living wage."

Supports unions, fair wages, and workplace safety for all workers.

Supports requiring businesses that receive tax incentives to commit to hiring local residents.

Believes investing in infrastructure is crucial to address congestion and affordability issues in Huntsville.

Supports environmental conservation, saying "we all want clean water and air that is safe to breathe."

- Supports raising the federal minimum wage and implementing an "inflation-adjusted living wage."
- Supports unions, fair wages, and workplace safety for all workers.
- Supports requiring businesses that receive tax incentives to commit to hiring local residents.
- Believes investing in infrastructure is crucial to address congestion and affordability issues in Huntsville.
- Supports environmental conservation.

Economy

Opposes the federal Back the Blue Act, which aims to increase funding for police, saying it will lead to "more mass incarceration."

Opposes increasing police funding, saying it will lead to "more mass incarceration."

Supports community-based policing, emphasizing the need for quality education, economic opportunity, and mental health care to prevent crime.

Supports prioritizing education over policing and prisons.

Plans to implement a Motorist Bill of Rights.

Plans to standardize probable cause for traffic stops, eliminate road-side behavior tests for sobriety testing, and guarantee free-of-charge release of body camera footage from traffic stops.

Supports eliminating qualified immunity, which protects police officers from being sued for misconduct unless they violated a clearly established constitutional right.

Supports gun control measures such as universal background checks, raising the minimum age to buy an assault-style weapon to 21, and red flag laws.

- Opposes increasing police funding, saying it will lead to "more mass incarceration."
- Supports community-based policing, emphasizing the need for quality education, economic opportunity, and mental health care to prevent crime.
- Supports prioritizing education over policing and prisons.
- Plans to standardize probable cause for traffic stops, eliminate road-side behavior tests for sobriety testing, and guarantee free-of-charge release of body camera footage from traffic stops.
- Supports eliminating qualified immunity, which protects police officers from being sued for misconduct unless they violated a clearly established constitutional right.
- Supports gun control measures such as universal background checks, raising the minimum age to buy an assault-style weapon to 21, and red flag laws.

Public Safety

Supports Medicare and Medicaid expansion by removing income restrictions.

Supports access to reproductive healthcare.

- Supports Medicare and Medicaid expansion by removing income restrictions.
- Supports access to reproductive healthcare.
- Said, "I am pro-vaccine."

Healthcare

Supports providing teachers with competitive salaries, expanding technical and job training programs, and ensuring parents have a say in their children's education.

Supports providing teachers with "good" salaries, expanding technical and job training programs, and ensuring parents have a say in their children's education.

Supports fully funding the Department of Education to ensure special needs education is available in public schools.

Supports a fully funded Department of Education to ensure special needs education is available in public schools.

Opposes the Choose Act, believing it will "bankrupt the state" and only subsidizes education for wealthy people.

Opposes the Choose Act, believing it will "bankrupt the state" and only subsidize education for wealthy people.

- Supports providing teachers with "good" salaries, expanding technical and job training programs, and ensuring parents have a say in their children's education.
- Supports a fully funded Department of Education to ensure special needs education is available in public schools.
- Opposes the Choose Act, believing it will "bankrupt the state" and only subsidize education for wealthy people.
- Supports increased funding for schools.

Education

Supports environmental conservation and wants to ensure clean water and safe air for all.

- Supports environmental conservation and wants to ensure clean water and safe air for all.

Energy & the Environment

Believes in avoiding "wars of choice" and supports Congress asserting its Article 1 war powers authority.

- Believes in avoiding "wars of choice" and supports Congress asserting its Article 1 war powers authority.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports legislation to expand voting access and protect election integrity.

- Supports legislation to expand voting access and protect election integrity.

Voting & Elections

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Everett Wess lives in Birmingham, Alabama. He has an associate's degree in music education from Selma University, a bachelor's degree in computer science from Alabama A&M University, a master's degree in business administration from Alabama A&M University, and a law degree from the Birmingham School of Law.

Everett Wess - BirminghamWatch

Everett Wess lives in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his associate's degree in music education from Selma University, a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's degree in business administration from Alabama A&M University, and a law degree from the Birmingham School of Law. 

Everett is an attorney and managing partner at The Wess Law Firm, P.C., where he has worked since 2000. He previously worked as a software consultant at Banctec Inc. and Comsys Inc., and as a software analyst at NTI and TRW. He also served as an adjunct professor at Faulkner University. Earlier in his career, he served as a prosecutor and public defender in Jefferson County, Alabama.

Everett is an attorney and managing partner at The Wess Law Firm, P.C., and as Midfield Municipal Court judge in Jefferson County, Alabama. He previously worked as a software consultant at Banctec Inc. and Comsys Inc., an adjunct professor at Faulkner University, a software analyst at the NTI Corporation and TRW., a prosecutor for the City of Midfield, and a public defender for the City of Irondale.

Everett previously ran for Alabama probate judge in 2018 and for circuit court judge in 2014 and 2016, but did not win. He currently serves as a municipal judge for the City of Midfield.

Everett Wess - Ballotpedia

Everett previously ran for Jefferson County Probate Court in 2024 and 2018, Alabama's 10th Judicial Circuit, Place 3, in 2020, and Alabama's 10th Judicial Circuit, Place 26, in 2016 and 2014, but did not win. 

Believes economic opportunity is crucial for growth and prosperity.

- Believes economic opportunity is crucial for growth and prosperity.

Supports fair courts and a clean government that serves all citizens.

- Supports fair courts and a clean government that serves all citizens.

Supports affordable healthcare, especially in rural and underserved areas of Alabama.

- Supports affordable healthcare, especially in rural and underserved areas of Alabama.

Promises "quality education" for students across the state.

- Promises "quality education" for students across the state.

As of May 22, 2026, Everett Wess’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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- The U.S. Senator is a member of the United States Senate, the upper house of the United States Congress. There are a total of 100 U.S. senators. Alabama, like every other US state, has two senators. 
- U.S. Senators introduce, sponsor, amend, debate, and vote on legislation that may become federal law, representing their state’s interests at the national level.
- U.S. Senators have an important role in deciding who runs the federal government. They hold confirmation hearings for most presidential appointees, including new Supreme Court Justices and Presidential Cabinet Members.
- Senators can be appointed to committees that focus on specific policy areas, such as the Appropriations Committee, which handles federal spending, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which addresses international policy.
- U.S. Senators are elected to six-year terms in statewide elections and are paid $174,000 per year.

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